Dental work complete!

February 6th, 2010

With the broken tooth successfully extracted, a new digging tooth was acquired and is seen here in the process of being welded into place.    The museum's backhoe is one of several pieces of heavy equipment the museum relies on constantly so it is important to have it ready to go!

The museum always welcomes new people interested in helping to maintain our heavy equipment fleet.   Please stop by during one of our work sessions or contact us here.

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Time for a little dental work...

February 6th, 2010

Even with winter having its firm grip on the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, restoration and maintenance still continues in the museum's shop during both the Tuesday and Saturday work sessions.    The shops allows our volunteers to work out of the weather, and improvements to the shop are constantly being made.   The next planned improvement is to start to install the concrete floor in the shop with funds coming from our 'Building Tracks to the Future' annual fund drive.

On Tuesday evening, 2/2/2010, it was time for our Case 560 Super K backhoe to get a little dental work done to its bucket to remove a broken tooth in preparation to weld and bolt on a new tooth in preparation for the spring work around the museum.    Museum volunteers, Rob Burz (pictured below), Pete Gores, and Chad Timothy took turns grinding and then finally using "a bigger hammer" removed the broken tooth.

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Latest newsletter available - January 2010

January 13th, 2010

Interested to learn more about what is going on with the Rochester Chapter NRHS and the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum?   Read the January 2010 issue of our newsletter, The Semaphore, online in PDF.    And if you want to read more, please check out our online newsletter archive.

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